What would cause this to happen: rifle explodes.

[Koda]

bang bang kaboom.

wrong cartridge mixed in? Bad ammo (overcharged)?

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[Member 34319]

Usually I see this when a round goes into the case, IE poor neck support or lack of crimp on ammo causes bullet to go inward into case during feeding and kaboom.

Short, suppressed guns are violent cycling. They beat the crap out of ammo. I've seen more than enough nose dives that are caught because of a jam. It only takes the one that isn't caught to go kaboom.

It clearly went bang before the kaboom too so no squib or other sort of round issue.

Could have been over charged, but That is a bit harder to do in a rifle cartridge, but not unheard of.

It could also be that same ammo that was blowing up guns.

Lastly, he might have mixed a 300 blackout in there. But that one usually leaves a slug in the barrel.

 

[thekingoftroy]

A friend of mine had a rifle do something similar. He was shooting steel cases ammo and his theory was that the ammunition had some sort of coating on it that built up in the chamber and caused the rifle to be over pressured which caused a catastrophic failure. Not sure if this is what happened here.

 

[Member 53328]

Atleast he looked cool when it happened…….

Static range theatrics.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

300 BLK in a 5.56 will do that

 

[Koda]

I dont suspect he would put a wrong case/cartridge mixed into the magazine so its just scary that there could be something that bad with bulk factory ammo to cause a kaboom like that.

Id hate to go years with a favorite rifle and have it end all at once like that over 1 piece of bad ammo. Just so odd.

 

[arakboss]

bang bang kaboom.

wrong cartridge mixed in? Bad ammo (overcharged)?

I am pretty sure it was the rattle can paint job.

 

[RVTECH]

Atleast he looked cool when it happened…….

Static range theatrics.

I think you mean STRANGE range theatrics.

Was this staged or do people really go out dressed in quasi military/larper gear and just shoot indiscriminately, occasionally 'freezing' in some sort of 'tacticool' position and firing at nothing ?

I would be more impressed if I saw pinecones flying - like I shoot at!

 

[Member 53328]

I think you mean STRANGE range theatrics.

Was this staged or do people really go out dressed in quasi military/larper gear and just shoot indiscriminately, occasionally 'freezing' in some sort of 'tacticool' position and firing at nothing ?

I would be more impressed if I saw pinecones flying - like I shoot at!

People really do dress up to go to the range…..

 

[Yarome]

People really do dress up to go to the range…..

Zoomdweebie's abound... but always good for a chuckle.

They should have rules against it, though. "Street attire only". For others, It is kind of hard to get any good shooting in when you have a case of the giggles.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Maybe it's that png ammo that keeps blowing up guns?

 

[MikeGMU108]

Zoomdweebie's abound... but always good for a chuckle.

They should have rules against it, though. "Street attire only". For others, It is kind of hard to get any good shooting in when you have a case of the giggles.

Have you been to walmart lately- street attire covers a whole LOT of ground.

 

[P7M13]

street attire covers a whole LOT of ground.

Or not. Generally not, often with hillsides spilling out under and over fabric.

I'm with @Reno - round setback. What amazed me is he took three more shots after the kaboom.

 

[MikeInOr]

It kind of looked like a home built AR to me. That leaves a lot of room for where the problem might have been.

 

[rjmt]

 

[arakboss]

I have no idea how that happened, I went through that thing from end to end before selling it to him

He should have bought a hipoint.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

What is a POF rifle...?
Piece Of Feces...
Pride Of France..
Pray Often it Fires...

To be honest here...
I couldn't watch either video...Just too damn dorky.
Andy

 

[CamoDeafie]

What is a POF rifle...?
Piece Of Feces...
Pride Of France..
Pray Often it Fires...

To be honest here...
I couldn't watch either video...Just too damn dorky.
Andy

Privately
Owned
Firearm?

 

[Certaindeaf]

Didn't click but it probably means privately owned firearm because in the thumbnail "privately owned firearm rifle" would then make perfect sense.

 

[Certaindeaf]

It's like saying $100 dollars instead of 100 dollars or $100.
He was probably dropped on his head repeatedly as a child.